Solid pieces fitted at the drifts, forming the scrolls on the drifts: they are commonly mitred into the gunwale.
·noun Anything driven at random. II. Drift ·noun A driving; a violent movement. III. Drift ·noun I...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The altered position of a vessel by current or falling to leeward when hove-to or lying-to in a gale...
The Sailor's Word-Book
(1) of silver. In Ps. 68:30 denotes "fragments," and not properly money. In 1 Sam. 2:36 (Heb. agorah...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
·add. ·- Similar and probably related motion of the stars of an asterism, as distinguished from appa...
Commonly made of steel, are used as long punches for driving out other bolts. ...
The debris of the main pack. (See open ice.) ...
Consisting chiefly of an argillaceous earth, brought down by the rivers, floated about, and successi...
A large net, with meshes of one inch, used in the pilchard fishery in August; also, for herrings and...
A contrivance, by means of immersing a sail, to diminish the drift of a ship during a gale of wind. ...
Synonymous with lee-way. ...
A showery sprinkling of the water swept from the tops of the waves in a brisk gale. Driving snow is ...
Those parts of a made mast which are under the hoops. ...
Synonymous with bilge-keels. ...
The ordnance in the bows; also in building. ...
The fashion of the after-part of a ship, in the plane of projection. They are the hindmost timbers i...
Light guns proper to be taken into field operations; one or more of them is now carried by all ships...
The timbers which compose the bow of a vessel, and their sides look fore and aft; it is a name given...
The parts of the keel which are of large timber. ...
Projections at the after-part of the quarter, forming the boundaries of the galleries. ...
Strakes of plank running internally in a line with the decks, for the purpose of receiving the ends ...
Parts of a made mast. ...
When the salt meat is cut up on board ship by the petty officers, the captain and lieutenants are pe...
See pointers. ...
Pieces of carved work on each side of the taffrail upon the side stern-timber, and extending down as...
See graving-pieces. ...
The fillings in between the frame compartments of the riders, in diagonal trussing. ...
Dense ice, which has a great depth in the water in proportion to its size, and is not in a state of ...